Cork-extracting device.



Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

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APPLICATION TILED AUG.17, 1911. RENEWED JULY 2, 1912.

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ROBERT IB. PARKER, JR., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORK-EXTRACTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

Application filed August 17, 1911, Serial No. 644,570. Renewed July 2, 1912. Serial No. 707,348.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT B. PARKER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corl Extracting Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Wlll enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cork extracting devices.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of a cork extracting device adapted for association with a cork after the lat-' ter has been extracted from a bottle or vessel so as to facilitate subsequent extraction of the cork when reapplied to the bottle or vessel.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a cork extracting device adapted to be associated with a cork and when so associated will enable the latter to be extracted from a bottle or vessel a large number of times without injury to the cork.

A still further object of the invention resides in the provision of a cork extracting device of the character named which will be simple in construction, easily applied, efficient in use and which may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively small cost.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, ref erence will be had to the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in the sev eral views, and in which Figure 1 a view showing the device associated with a cork, the latter being in section, Fig. 2, a longitudinal section through the device with the parts thereof in the posit-ion shown in Fig. 1 and same being removed from the cork, Fig. 3, a detail perspective view of the device with the parts in the position they would occupy just previous to its insertion through a cork, and Fig. 4, a longitudinal section of what is shown in Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates the device generally which comprises detachable sections 10 and 11. The section 10 is constructed of a cylindrical body portion having one end exteriorly threaded as at 11 and its other end provided with a disk shaped head 12. The section 11 likewise consists of a cylindrical body portion, one

end of which terminates in a point 13 while the other end thereof is provided with a threaded recess 14 in which the threaded end 11 of the section 10 is detachably secured. The section 11 is further provided with a transversely disposed threaded aperture 15 for a purpose that will presently appear.

In order to apply the device to the cork B, after the latter has been previously extract ed from a vessel or a bottle with an ordinary cork screw, the section 11 is secured to the section 10 by screwing the threaded end 11 of the latter into the threaded recess 14. The point 13 is then engaged wit-h the center of the lower end of the cork B andthe device is forced longitudinally through the cork until the lower end of the latter engages the head 12. It will of course be understood that the section 10 is of sufficient length to position the threaded end thereof a considerable distance above the upper end of the cork. The section 11 is then disengaged from the section 10 and the threaded end 11 is inserted in the threaded aperture 15 thus disposing the section 11 at right angles to the sect-ion 10 in which position it serves as a handle to facilitate the extraction of the cork B after the latter has been reapplied in the neck of a vessel or bottle.

VVha-t is claimed is:

A cork extracting device comprising a pair of detachablemembers, one of which has its ends respectively threaded and provided with an enlarged head and the other of said members having one end pointed and its other end provided with a longitudinally directed threaded recess to detachably receive the threaded end of the first named member whereby said members may be screwed together in longitudinal alinement with the pointed end of the second named member and the enlarged head of the first named member disposed at the outer terminals of said connected members respectively to permit said members to be successively passed through a cork in a connected state, said second named member being further provided with a transversely disposed threaded recess to detachably receive the angles to the longitudinal axis of the first threaded end of the first named member named member as a handle. 10 whereby said second named member may be In testimony whereof, I afiix my signadetached from the first named member after ture, in presence of two Witnesses.

the passage of said members through a cork ROBERT B. PARKER, JR. in longitudinally alined disposition and Witnesses:

again secured to the first named member SARAH E. PARKER,

with its longitudinal axis disposed at right ROBERT A. MILLIKEN.

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